Recommended Books

The following books are not required for the course, however you may find them useful for the additional reading. Some books are available from the GMU libraries. Links to the online bookstore bn.com, where you can purchase these books, are provided for your convenience only.
 

Basic Text



Jenny Gu, Philip Bourne (Editors)
Structural bioinformatics
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Liss, 2009.

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Other Books on Protein Structure Analysis



Arthur M. Lesk
 Introduction to Protein Architecture : The Structural Biology of Proteins
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii, 347 p.
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Des Higgins, Willie Taylor (Editors)
 Bioinformatics: Sequence, Structure and Databanks : A Practical Approach
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xx, 288 p.
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Carl Branden,John Tooze 
 Introduction to Protein Structure
New York: Garland Publishing, 1999. xiv, 410 p.
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Other Bioinformatics Books


Minoru Kanehisa
 Post-Genome Informatics
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ix, 148 p.
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 Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins
Andreas Baxevanis, B.F.Francis Ouellette (Editors) 
New York :  John Wiley, 1998.  xiv, 370 p. 
(Methods of biochemical analysis ; v. 39)
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Stuart M. Brown
 Bioinformatics: A Biologist's Guide to Biocomputing and the Internet
Natick, MA: Eaton Publishing Company/BioTechniques Books Division, 2000. xi, 200p.

Dan Gusfield 
Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences : Computer Science and Computational Biology
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. xviii, 534 p.
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Richard Durbin, Sean Eddy, Anders Krogh, and Graeme Mitchison 
Biological Sequence Analysis : Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998. xi, 356 p.
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Calculating the Secrets of Life : Applications of the Mathematical Sciences in Molecular Biology
Eric S. Lander, Michael S. Waterman (Editors) 
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995. xii, 285 p.
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Luke Alphey 
DNA Sequencing : From Experimental Methods to Bioinformatics
New York : Springer, 1997. xiii, 206 p. 
(Introduction to Biotechniques Series)

Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii 
Unraveling DNA : The Most Important Molecule of Life
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1997. x, 214 p.
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